ALJ Daugherty Resigns
From the
American Bar Association Journal:
An administrative law judge who awarded Social Security disability benefits in every case he decided over a six-month period has resigned amid investigations into his conduct.
Judge David Daugherty of Huntington, W.Va., approved disability awards in all 729 cases he heard in the first half of fiscal 2011, the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) reports. In 2010, he heard nearly 1,300 cases, and approved benefits in all but four of them.
3 comments:
Good to see at least one outlier gone. Maybe other ALJs who have rarely met a claimant they would not pay will learn a lesson and begin just paying the deserving applicants.
i hope this doesn't stop oig from investigating what went on. but that would be a typical outcome for this agency: let the problem die quietly rather than make sure it never happens again.
How about going after the ALJs who grant less than 30 percent? Any ALJ who grants more than 80 percent and less then 30 percent are not doing their jobs.
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